Staff Software Engineer, Growth

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible hours

Job summary

Anthropic, based in San Francisco, is seeking a growth engineer to drive user acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization through data-driven strategies and technical implementations.

You will work with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, marketers, and product managers to design, implement, and optimize growth initiatives that scale Anthropic’s AI-powered tools and maximize impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in user growth, activation, retention, or monetization, or in revenue-focused advertising.
• Full-stack web development (React frontend and backend) with data analysis and experimentation frameworks.
• Data-driven problem solving with strong pattern recognition in user behavior.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical solutions to support user acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue growth.
• Design and run A/B tests to optimize onboarding, feature adoption, and subscription conversions.
• Collaborate with product and marketing to translate growth opportunities into technical requirements.

Skills

Growth analytics

Full-stack development

Data analysis

A/B testing

AI product mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

We are looking for growth engineers to join our growth team. This key role will help drive user acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization through data-driven strategies and technical implementations. At Anthropic, we're not just building AI tools; we're reimagining how AI can enhance and expand its user base! As a member of the growth team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape our growth strategy. You will work with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, marketers, and product managers to design, implement, and optimize growth initiatives that scale our AI-powered tools and maximize their impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement technical solutions to support user acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue growth
• Design and execute A/B tests and experiments to optimize user onboarding, feature adoption, subscription conversion, and overall product experience
• Collaborate with product and marketing teams to identify growth opportunities and translate them into technical requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience working on user growth (acquisition, activation, retention, monetization) or have worked in a revenue focused organization like ads.
• Have experience full-stack development (web/React and backend), and experience with data analysis and experimentation frameworks
• Take a data-driven approach to problem-solving, with a keen eye for identifying patterns and opportunities in user behavior and metrics
• Are passionate about the potential of AI to reach and benefit a wide audience, and eager to tackle challenges in scaling AI products
• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners and teammates

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Have ideas for experiments to run to drive user growth or monetization
• Able to dive into data and identify opportunities
• Possess a vision for the future of AI product growth and a drive to make that vision a reality

Annual Salary

$320,000—$405,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.